13.02.2019
Government ready for possible general election inMay
The official line of the PM’s office is that the election will be in October, but most analysts are convinced that parliamentary elections will be held along with the other three races.
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13.02.2019
Editorial: Price
With the populist rhetoric that guided its thoughts and actions, the government engaged in a number of such clashes with reality, and reality won.
12.02.2019
Athens, Constantinople agree on clergy’s salaries, church-state relations
'There was absolute concord and identical views in both Churches, both on the proposals regarding the revision of the Constitution and on maintaining the existing system for paying the salaries of the Orthodox clergy.'
12.02.2019
Editorial: Supporter
Our professors and students will build the universities of the 21st century. In this effort, the state cannot but support them.
11.02.2019
Government: Bank recaps a figment of journalists’ imagination
'What Mr. Dragasakis said in the context of parliamentary debate was skewed in order to stir a sensation,” said Tzanakopoulos.
11.02.2019
Mitsotakis pitches ND economic platform to German investors
The conservative leader called for new, mutually beneficial Greece-Germany economic cooperation with a focus on investments.
11.02.2019
Editorial: Romances
SYRIZA and the Independent Greeks party experienced their joint rule as a romance. Now, we are witnessing a rupture the characteristics of which transcend politics.
09.02.2019
Editorial: Paying the piper
Instead of confronting the burning issue of non-performing loans in a drastic manner, the government is testing the limits of the system with its policies
09.02.2019
Greece ratifies North Macedonia’s Nato accession
The majority was comprised of SYRIZA’s 145 MPs and eight more independents including MPs of the former Potami party parliamentary group.
08.02.2019
Kammenos expels MP, triggers dissolution of parliamentary group
The Papachristopoulos saga with his on again off again resignation was spurred by the MPs decision to break the party line on three crucial votes.
08.02.2019
Editorial: Straightjacket
EPP's Manfreled Weber leaves open possibility of renegotiation of Greek programme’s primary surplus targets
07.02.2019
Weber sees need for new government in Greece
The EPP's Manfred Weber in Athens lionised main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis and indirectly but clearly dismissed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras as a populist who cannot bring growth.
07.02.2019
Kammenos on the verge of losing parliamentary group
'The Independent Greeks’ parliamentary group convened and we unanimously demanded that Mr. Papachristopoulos surrender his seat to the party as he had promised.'
07.02.2019
Editorial: Vicious circle
Creditors also bear responsibility as they turned a blind eye to the debt problem and believed that austerity could remedy the ills of a country with the peculiarities of Greece.
06.02.2019
Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ Opportunity
Investment remains stuck at its lowest level and the economy is not taking off. It is unable to transcend the cycle and culture of pervasive pessimism, as if something is binding and immobilising it.
06.02.2019
In historic visit to Halki, Tsipras calls for re-opening of patriarchal seminary
Tsipras and Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos called on Turkish authorities to approve the re-opening of the historic institution which for generations was the training ground for priests and patriarchs.
06.02.2019
Editorial: Visits
Peace is not built on hasty visits. It is even more difficult to build when the country effectively lacks a foreign minister (as the PM has assumed the portfolio).
05.02.2019
Aegean de-escalation, Cyprus, energy top Erdogan, Tsipras talks
Tsipras expressed heightened concern over dangerous military indidents in the Aegean and he underscored the importance of the direct line of communication with Erdogan.
